Haiti & Australia

S1 : E1 | TV-PG | 49 min | Aired: 04.07.21

In 1939 and again in 2009, Australia watched helplessly as massive firestorms roared through bone dry forests with devastating speed. We then experience the tragic events of Haiti in 1842 and 2010 whe...

St. Louis & China

S1 : E2 | TV-PG | 49 min | Aired: 04.07.21

We explore a very different Disaster Deja vu with two of the deadliest 'natural phenomenon' disasters in recorded history that took place in two very different countries. The "Great Jaingsu Flood in C...

San Francisco & Jerusalem

S1 : E3 | TV-PG | 49 min | Aired: 04.07.21

San Francisco experiences a disaster Deja vu with two immense earthquakes that absolutely rock the city. The first occurs in 1906, and then the second, in 1989. Then we go to the other side of the wor...

Japan & Australia

S1 : E5 | TV-PG | 49 min | Aired: 04.07.21

The most destructive earthquake in Tokyo's history and the strongest one in history are apart by 89 years. Down under in Australia, we track the isolated northern outpost of Darwin to understand how t...

Zaire & New York City

S1 : E6 | TV-PG | 49 min | Aired: 04.07.21

The Great Blizzard of 1888 brought NYC to its knees, then another blizzard strikes again 128 years later. Africa tries to come to grips with a disease that first ravaged its people in 1976, before the...

Galveston & Iceland

S1 : E7 | TV-PG | 49 min | Aired: 04.07.21

Devastating hurricanes twice leave a path of destruction in Galveston, Texas, an island city on the Gulf Coast of Texas. Then, Iceland is on high alert for the destructive force of deadly volcanoes th...

Chennai & Chicago

S1 : E8 | TV-PG | 49 min | Aired: 04.07.21

We explore a disaster described as the most famous fire in American history; the 1871 Great Fire of Chicago. In 1934 Chicago experienced another destructive inferno. Then to southern India, where in 1...

Charleston & Paris

S1 : E9 | TV-PG | 49 min | Aired: 04.07.21

Two of the deadliest storms to ever make landfall in the USA, Hurricane Hazel and Hurricane Hugo, both targeted Charleston, South Carolina. Also, the tragic events in Paris, two brutal summers of extr...

Montreal & Peru

S1 : E10 | TV-PG | 49 min | Aired: 04.07.21

In Peru, two deadly avalanches in 1962 and again in 1970 tore down Mount Huascaran's north face, wiping out the towns of Ranrahirca and Yungay. And in Montreal, two record breaking ice storms entombed...

New Delhi & Hawaii

S1 : E11 | TV-PG | 49 min | Aired: 04.07.21

A devastating tsunami that hit Hilo, Hawaii in the mid 1800s, then close to a hundred years later, despite precautions, Hilo is hit again. On the other side of the world, we look at the overpopulation...

Winnipeg & Pompeii

S1 : E12 | TV-PG | 49 min | Aired: 04.07.21

An ancient seabed returns to water as the mighty Red River spills its banks not once but twice in a century. The floods of 1950 and 1997. Flashing back to 79AD and Mount Vesuvius' eruption catches eve...

Florida & Sydney

S1 : E13 | TV-PG | 49 min | Aired: 04.07.21

First up, we witness Mother Nature unleash the full fury of a devastating winter - twice - on unsuspecting, citrus rich, and usually full of sunshine, Florida. Then, day turns to night down under - mo...